I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.